Russian Zorro, or the True Story of the Noble Robber Vladimir Dubrovsky
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Russian Zorro, or the True Story of the Noble Robber Vladimir Dubrovsky
14.99 €
A dashing cavalryman and swashbuckler, a lover and a guards officer for whom honor is paramount, becomes a bandit when a powerful neighbor seizes his estate, and his love for his enemy's daughter makes him the most miserable man in the world.
A friend told this story to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in the fall of 1832. Russia's foremost literary figure, desperate for money, attempted to turn the simple plot into a pulp novel. He soon grew bored with the idea; Pushkin abandoned the drafts, never to return to them again...
...but in 1841, the publishers of a posthumous collection of his works compiled the scattered sketches into a semblance of a book, calling it "Dubrovsky." Since then, a novel that never existed has misled generations of readers, while the real Dubrovsky has been forgotten over the years. But who was he, exactly? What unexpected secrets of the Russian Empire did the young guardsman find himself privy to, and how did his subsequent fate unfold?
"An intelligent man could have taken a ready-made plan, ready-made characters, corrected the style and nonsense, filled in the omissions—and a wonderful, original novel would have emerged." This advice from Pushkin himself allows inquisitive posterity to finally uncover the true story of the noble robber Vladimir Dubrovsky.
A friend told this story to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in the fall of 1832. Russia's foremost literary figure, desperate for money, attempted to turn the simple plot into a pulp novel. He soon grew bored with the idea; Pushkin abandoned the drafts, never to return to them again...
...but in 1841, the publishers of a posthumous collection of his works compiled the scattered sketches into a semblance of a book, calling it "Dubrovsky." Since then, a novel that never existed has misled generations of readers, while the real Dubrovsky has been forgotten over the years. But who was he, exactly? What unexpected secrets of the Russian Empire did the young guardsman find himself privy to, and how did his subsequent fate unfold?
"An intelligent man could have taken a ready-made plan, ready-made characters, corrected the style and nonsense, filled in the omissions—and a wonderful, original novel would have emerged." This advice from Pushkin himself allows inquisitive posterity to finally uncover the true story of the noble robber Vladimir Dubrovsky.
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